Sebastian Ley wrote: > pcmcia-udeb and ethdetect both provide ethernet-card-detection. Since > main-menu will skip packages who provide something that is already > provided by an installed package ethdetect will never be selected (be > default). > > On non pcmcia system it will result in netcfg-dhcp complaining that > there are no network devices. > > I imagine the following solutions: > - Remove ethernet-card-detection Provides > - Detect in an isinstallable script, if pcmcia is supported The isinstallable idea may work, but I am leaning toward moving pcmcia off the menu, and just let hw-detect or ethdetect detect and enable pcmcia as part of regular hardware detection. That would neatly avoid the problem (and why should pcmcia be different than any other hardware..?) but will need some work in hw-detect to clean up its pcmcia support. -- see shy jo
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